FACTS which contradict what is taught in the universities and which even run counter to the assumptions made by critics of misandry.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Domestic Violence Against Women Debated in Connecticut - 1889

FULL
TEXT: At a recent meeting of experts in criminology Judge Simeon E. Baldwin of
the supreme court of Connecticut said: “I do not hesitate to avow my conviction
that whipping would often furnish a mode of punishment far more appropriate
than fine or imprisonment for minor offenses and a useful addition to
imprisonment for greater ones. While holding criminal terms of the superior
court hate more than once had occasion to sentence culprits to confinement in
jail, whose case would have been, in my opinion, better fitted by some form of
punishment shorter in duration and sharper in pain.

“No
sentence
to a county jail is greatly dreaded by a hardened criminal. It gives
him in most cases an assurance of better housing and of better food than
he is
in the habit or gaining by any other mode of exertion. On the other
hand,
whipping is dreaded by every one, man or child. We shrink from it first
and
most because it hurts. It is no degradation to a boy to be whipped by
his
father, or by his master at school. That is not his objection to it. He
feels
that it is a reasonable and natural consequence off misdoing, and leaves
him
better rather than worse. The sailor and the soldier, until recent
years, met
it in the same way and with no loss of spirit or of loyalty to their
flag.
Custom for them had disassociated it from disgrace. It was simply
retribution.
Among civilians, however, to the grown man it is and always was a mark
of
degradation in the eyes of the community. But as a penalty for, crime it
is a
consequence of degradation rather than a cause of it. It was the crime
that really degraded. Governor Buckingham of Connecticut once stated
that no white
man had ever been whipped twice under a judicial sentence in that state
There
have been many who have gone back to jail 10 and 20 times.”

Rev.
Phoebe Hanaford said: “The whipping post is the best thing for wife beaters.
Justice and mercy both require it. If a man is fined his family suffers the
loss of so much money. If he is imprisoned the family will be deprived of the
wages which he might be able to earn. Then, again, the fear of bodily pain will
deter him from abusing his wife more than the thought of going to jail. The
whipping should not be a public spectacle. Publicity would add nothing to the
punishment of the wife beater.

►• You
have been told that before the rise of feminism in the 1960s that domestic
violence against women was tolerated by society as acceptable behavior and was
not taken seriously by police and the courts.

You have been lied to. The people who told you these
lies were paid to tell them you. In most cases you paid your own money (taxes
and tuition fees) to be lied to.

Here is one of countless pieces of evidence that demonstrate
the truth.

►•►• To see more eloquent, vivid
evidence proving the lie and giving you the truth, see:

No,
the claim that laws created by males were for the benefit of males is
false. Yes, the "Rule of Thumb" myth has been proven to be a
marxist-feminist hoax, taking an ancient English common historical
notation published in the 18th century and extrapolating it into
unsupported claims that 18th and 20th century United
States communities, courts and legislatures (laws on the books) were in agreement
with the18th century historical notation (Blackstone).

***

“[O]nly since the 1970s has the criminal justice system
begun to treat domestic violence as a serious crime, not as a private family
matter.”

►• You
have been told that before the rise of feminism in the 1960s that domestic
violence against women was tolerated by society as acceptable behavior and was
not taken seriously by police and the courts.

You have been lied to. The people who told you these
lies were paid to tell them you. In most cases you paid your own money (taxes
and tuition fees) to be led to.

Here is one of countless pieces of evidence that demonstrate
the truth.

►•►• To see more eloquent, vivid
evidence proving the lie and giving you the truth, see:

►Treatment of Domestic Violence Against Women Before 1960-- this post collects cases classified by the form of punishment or sentencing (whether judicial or through community action)
No,
the claim that laws created by males were for the benefit of males is
false. Yes, the "Rule of Thumb" myth has been proven to be a
marxist-feminist hoax, taking an ancient English common historical
notation published in the 18th century and extrapolating it into
unsupported claims that 18th and 20th century United
States communities, courts and legislatures (laws on the books) were in agreement
with the18th century historical notation (Blackstone).

***

“[O]nly since the 1970s has the criminal justice system
begun to treat domestic violence as a serious crime, not as a private family
matter.”